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<h1><a href=".">bandali</a>'s curriculum vitae</h1>

<p class="box">also available in plain text as
as <a href="bandali-cv.txt">bandali-cv.txt</a></p>

<dl id="link-grid">
<dt>Site</dt>
<dd><a href="https://bndl.org">bndl.org</a></dd>
<dt>Email</dt>
<dd>bandali@gnu.org</dd>
<dt>Phone</dt>
<dd>available upon request via email</dd>
</dl>

<h2>Summary of Qualifications</h2>

<ul>
<li>Experience in building software for diverse areas and platforms in
various programming languages such as C, Python, and Haskell.</li>
<li>Passionate about applying scientific and engineering methods while
designing and building software systems.</li>
<li>Using formal specification techniques to find specification-level
bugs early in the design stage rather than implementation.</li>
<li>GNU/Linux system administration on both the client and the server
side.</li>
<li>Problem-solving and communication skills, honed through research
and teaching roles held in graduate school, as well as holding
tutorials discussing complex concepts with fellow students and peers
throughout undergraduate studies and high school.</li>
<li>Organizational and teamwork skills, strengthened thanks to
community service in form of volunteer activities including organizing
the EmacsConf conference and volunteer work for charities such as the
Free Software Foundation and St. Brigid's Summer Camp.</li>
</ul>

<h2>Education</h2>

<dl>
<dt>Master of Mathematics in Computer Science, University of Waterloo,
2020</dt>
<dd>Research focus: formal logic, model checking, verification</dd>
<dd>Thesis: <a href="#mmath">A Comprehensive Study of Declarative
Modelling Languages</a></dd>
<dd>Supervisor: <a href="https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~nday/">Prof. Nancy
A. Day</a></dd>
<dd>GPA: 3.7/4.0</dd>

<dt>Bachelor of Science with Honours in Computer Science, York
University, 2017</dt>
<dd>Favourite courses: System Specification &amp; Refinement, Software
Requirements Engineering, Software Design, Operating Systems,
Computational Complexity, Design &amp; Analysis of Algorithms</dd>
<dd>GPA: 7.84/9.0</dd>
</dl>

<h2 id="research">Research Interests</h2>

formal logic, model checking, theorem proving, verification

<h2 id="publications">Publications &amp; Presentations</h2>

<p>The complete bibliography of my publications is available as
a <a href="bandali.bib">bandali.bib</a>
<span class="tex">B<span>ib</span>T<sub>e</sub>X</span> bibliography
file.</p>

<h3>Papers</h3>

<dl>
<dt>A Comparison of the Declarative Modelling Languages B, DASH, and
TLA<sup>+</sup>
<small>
[ <a href="https://p.bndl.org/modre2018-declarative.pdf">pdf</a>
| <a href="https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~nday/artifacts/2018-modre/">models</a>
]
</small>
</dt>
<dd>
Ali Abbassi, <a href="https://bndl.org">Amin Bandali</a>,
<a href="https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~nday/">Nancy A. Day</a>, Jose Serna<br />
<em>8th IEEE International Model-Driven Requirements Engineering Workshop, MoDRE@RE 2018</em><br />
Copyright &copy; 2018 IEEE.  All Rights Reserved.  Sadly.
</dd>
</dl>

<h3>Theses</h3>

<dl>
<dt id="mmath">A Comprehensive Study of Declarative Modelling
Languages
<small>
[ <a href="https://p.bndl.org/bandali-mmath-thesis.pdf">pdf</a>
| <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/10012/16059">hdl</a>
| <a href="https://bndl.org/mmath.html">http</a>
]
</small>
</dt>
<dd>
<a href="https://bndl.org">Amin Bandali</a><br />
<em><abbr title="Master of Mathematics">MMath</abbr> Thesis,
University of Waterloo, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science,
July 2020.</em>
</dd>
</dl>

<h3>Talks</h3>

<dl>
<dt>Jami and how it empowers users
<small>
[ <a href="https://p.bndl.org/bandali-jami-libreplanet-2021.pdf">pdf</a>
(<a href="https://p.bndl.org/bandali-jami-libreplanet-2021-with-notes.pdf">with
notes</a>)
| <a href="https://bndl.org/libreplanet-2021.html">http</a>
]
</small>
</dt>
<dd>
<a href="https://bndl.org">Amin Bandali</a><br />
<em>Presented at the LibrePlanet 2021 Conference, March 20, 2021.</em>
</dd>

<dt>The Magic of Specifications and Type Systems
<small>
[ <a href="https://p.bndl.org/cucsc-2017-slides.pdf">slides</a>
| <a href="https://p.bndl.org/eecs4080-poster.pdf">poster</a>
]
</small>
</dt>
<dd>
<a href="https://bndl.org">Amin Bandali</a>,
<a href="https://github.com/cipher1024">Simon Hudon</a>,
<a href="https://www.eecs.yorku.ca/~jonathan/">Jonathan S. Ostroff</a><br />
<em>Slides presented at the Canadian Undergraduate Computer Science
Conference 2017, University of Toronto, Canada, June 15&ndash;17, 2017.<br />
Poster presented at the Lassonde Undergraduate Summer Student Research
Conference, York University, Toronto, Canada, August 15, 2017.</em>
</dd>

<dt>Introducing YULUG</dt>
<dd>
<a href="https://bndl.org">Amin Bandali</a><br />
<em>Slides introducing YULUG &mdash; (GNU/)Linux User Group at York
University &mdash; presented at a Computing Students Hub (CSHub) tech
talk at York University, Toronto, Canada, February 12, 2015.</em>
</dd>
</dl>

<h2>Work &amp; Research Experience</h2>

<dl>
<dt>Savoir-faire Linux</dt>
<dd>fall 2020&ndash;present | Free Software Consultant | Consultant en
logiciel libre</dd>
<dd>
<dl>
<dd>I am part of the Jami core development team at Savoir-faire Linux,
where I work on various parts of Jami as a Free Software Consultant.
These include working on and maintaining the GTK+-based jami-gnome
client application written in C++ and C, and packaging Jami for
various GNU/Linux distributions and other platforms.  I also serve as
a community liaison between the Jami core team and the wider free
software community around Jami, with the goal of helping facilitate
the communications and relations between the two.</dd>
</dl>
</dd>

<dt>Free Software Foundation (FSF)</dt>
<dd>spring 2020 | Intern</dd>
<dd>
<dl>
<dd>Working with the FSF tech team in a sysadmin role on a variety of
tasks including installation of the Sourcehut free software forge on
the FSF infrastructure for evaluation for the FSF forge project, as
well as a series of enhancements
for <a href="https://www.gnu.org">www.gnu.org</a>.</dd>
</dl>
</dd>

<dt>Cheriton School of Science, University of Waterloo</dt>
<dd>winter 2018&ndash;spring 2020 | TA, IA, RA <sup>[*]</sup></dd>
<dd>
<dl>
<dd>SE 465 (Software Testing and Quality Assurance): TA in winter
2020</dd>
<dd>SE 212 (Logic and Computation): <a href="se212-f19.html">IA in
Fall 2019</a>, TA in fall 2018</dd>
<dd>SE 463 (Software Requirement Specification and Analysis): TA in
spring 2019 and 2018</dd>
<dd>CS 136 (Elementary Algorithm Design and Data Abstraction): TA in
winter 2018</dd>
</dl>
</dd>
<dd><small>[*]: Teaching Assistant (marking exams and assignments),
Instructional Apprentice (holding tutorials and marking), Research
Assistant (doing research for/with supervisor)</small></dd>

<dt>Department of Electrical Engineering &amp; Computer Science, York
University</dt>
<dd>fall 2017 | Teaching Assistant</dd>
<dd>
<dl>
<dd>EECS 1012 (Net-Centric Introduction to Computing): TA in fall
2017, running labs and marking labs and exams</dd>
</dl>
</dd>

<dt>Software Engineering Lab, York University</dt>
<dd>
<dl>
<dt>summer 2017 | Research Assistant</dt>
<dd>Worked on an implementation
of <a href="https://bertrandmeyer.com/2014/12/07/lampsort/">Lampsort</a>
in Eiffel.  Extended
the <a href="https://svn.eecs.yorku.ca/repos/sel-open/mathmodels/">mathmodels</a>
library, implementing a <code>rational</code> class for working with
arbitrarily large rational numbers.</dd>
</dl>
</dd>
<dd>
<dl>
<dt>summer 2016 | Research Student</dt>
<dd>Worked on <em>Literate Unit-B</em>, the verifier for Unit-B, a
new formal method focused on formal verification of reactive,
concurrent and distributed systems.  From the Literate Unit-B codebase
(written in Haskell), decoupled the logic module and used it to build
<em>Unit-B Web</em>, a web interface using Literate Unit-B to do
predicate calculus proofs.  Unit-B Web, also written in Haskell,
supports the <span class="tex">L<sup>a</sup>T<sub>e</sub>X</span>
syntax of the Unit-B logic, renders user input on the page, and calls
the sequent prover of the logic module, which uses the Z3 SMT solver
to check the validity of user input.</dd>
<dd>Separated Literate Unit-B's type checker from its parser in a
large refactoring, allowing easier substitution of other type checking
algorithms, and in preparation for implementing subtyping.</dd>
</dl>
</dd>

<dt>Lotek Wireless Inc.</dt>
<dd>
<dl>
<dt>summer 2016 | Software Developer</dt>
<dd>Designed and developed an Employee Portal web application in C#
and the MVC framework, used by employees for accessing various data
catalogs and archives.</dd>
</dl>
</dd>
<dd>
<dl>
<dt>summer 2015 | Software Developer</dt>
<dd>Designed and implemented various applications in C# and C for
analyzing and testing a satellite pass prediction algorithm for
predicting the pass windows of Argos satellites, for scheduling send
times of data collected by the company's wildlife tracking
products.</dd>
</dl>
</dd>

<dt>Athlete Builder</dt>
<dd>
<dl>
<dt>2013&ndash;2014 | Software Developer</dt>
<dd>Developed the Backend of Athlete Builder platform in C# and
MVC.</dd>
<dd>Key role in development of the platform core.</dd>
<dd>Developed the alpha version of Athlete Builder Android application
in Java.</dd>
</dl>
</dd>
</dl>

<h2>Skills</h2>
<dl>
<dt>Programming languages</dt>
<dd>C, C++, Haskell, Emacs Lisp, Guile Scheme, Python, Eiffel, Bash,
C#, Java, JavaScript</dd>
<dt>Tools</dt>
<dd>GNU Emacs, Git, Alloy, TLA<sup>+</sup>,
ProB, <span class="tex">L<sup>a</sup>T<sub>e</sub>X</span>, continuous
integration systems</dd>
<dt>Platforms</dt>
<dd>GNU/Linux distributions, including Trisquel, GNU Guix, Debian</dd>
<dt>Languages</dt>
<dd>Persian (mother tongue), English (fluent), French (beginner)</dd>
</dl>

<h2>Community Service</h2>
<dl>
<dt>EmacsConf conference</dt>
<dd>
<dl>
<dt>2019&ndash;present</dt>
<dd>Chief organizer and maintainer of conference infrastructure,
including the streaming servers.</dd>
<dt>2015</dt>
<dd>One of the organizers and in charge of setting up and maintaining
vital pieces of infrastructure.</dd>
</dl>
</dd>
<dt>Computer Science Club (CSC) of the University of Waterloo</dt>
<dd>Served as the CSC System Administrator in Winter and Spring 2020.
Present member of the CSC Systems Committee, overseeing and
maintaining a large fleet of GNU/Linux servers for CSC members, as
well as running the CSC mirror for free software projects.</dd>
<dd>Notable projects
include <a href="https://mailman.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/pipermail/csc-general/2020-July/000837.html">launching
the CSC web IRC client</a> as part of an effort in bringing modern
user freedom- and privacy-respecting communication tools to club
members.</dd>
<dt>Free/libre software contributions</dt>
<dd>Co-maintainer
of <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/gnuzilla.html">GNUzilla
and IceCat</a>, the GNU version of the Mozilla suite and the Firefox
browser respectively.</dd>
<dd>Maintainer
of <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/erc.html">ERC</a>, the
powerful, modular, and extensible IRC client distributed with GNU
Emacs.</dd>
<dd>Committer and regular contributor
to <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html">GNU
Emacs</a> and <a href="https://guix.gnu.org">GNU Guix</a>.</dd>
<dd><a href="https://www.gnu.org/people/webmeisters.html#bandali">GNU
webmaster</a>
and <a href="https://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/SavannahHacker/">GNU
Savannah hacker</a>.</dd>
<dt>Volunteer work</dt>
<dd>
<dl>
<dt>spring 2013 | Application Developer for VONICAL Inc.</dt>
<dd>Worked on development of the Employment Accessibility Resource
Network (EARN) portal using the Anahita social networking platform,
written in PHP and running on GNU/Linux.</dd>
<dt>winter 2013 | Mobile &amp; Web Developer for Hire Works Inc.</dt>
<dd>Worked on a variety of web and mobile development projects for
Hire Works.</dd>
<dt>summer 2012 | Web Developer for St. Brigid's Summer Camp</dt>
<dd>Redesigned and revamped the codebase for the photo gallery section
of the camp's website in PHP and JavaScript.</dd>
</dl>
</dd>
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	62	<h1><a href=".">bandali</a>'s curriculum vitae</h1>
	63
	64	<p class="box">also available in plain text as
65	as <a href="bandali-cv.txt">bandali-cv.txt</a></p>
66
67	<dl id="link-grid">
68	<dt>Site</dt>
69	<dd><a href="https://bndl.org">bndl.org</a></dd>
70	<dt>Email</dt>
71	<dd>bandali@gnu.org</dd>
72	<dt>Phone</dt>
73	<dd>available upon request via email</dd>
74	</dl>
75
76	<h2>Summary of Qualifications</h2>
77
78	<ul>
79	<li>Experience in building software for diverse areas and platforms in
80	various programming languages such as C, Python, and Haskell.</li>
81	<li>Passionate about applying scientific and engineering methods while
82	designing and building software systems.</li>
83	<li>Using formal specification techniques to find specification-level
84	bugs early in the design stage rather than implementation.</li>
85	<li>GNU/Linux system administration on both the client and the server
86	side.</li>
87	<li>Problem-solving and communication skills, honed through research
88	and teaching roles held in graduate school, as well as holding
89	tutorials discussing complex concepts with fellow students and peers
90	throughout undergraduate studies and high school.</li>
91	<li>Organizational and teamwork skills, strengthened thanks to
92	community service in form of volunteer activities including organizing
93	the EmacsConf conference and volunteer work for charities such as the
94	Free Software Foundation and St. Brigid's Summer Camp.</li>
95	</ul>
96
97	<h2>Education</h2>
98
99	<dl>
100	<dt>Master of Mathematics in Computer Science, University of Waterloo,
101	2020</dt>
102	<dd>Research focus: formal logic, model checking, verification</dd>
103	<dd>Thesis: <a href="#mmath">A Comprehensive Study of Declarative
104	Modelling Languages</a></dd>
105	<dd>Supervisor: <a href="https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~nday/">Prof. Nancy
106	A. Day</a></dd>
107	<dd>GPA: 3.7/4.0</dd>
108
109	<dt>Bachelor of Science with Honours in Computer Science, York
110	University, 2017</dt>
111	<dd>Favourite courses: System Specification & Refinement, Software
112	Requirements Engineering, Software Design, Operating Systems,
113	Computational Complexity, Design & Analysis of Algorithms</dd>
114	<dd>GPA: 7.84/9.0</dd>
115	</dl>
116
117	<h2 id="research">Research Interests</h2>
118
119	formal logic, model checking, theorem proving, verification
120
121	<h2 id="publications">Publications & Presentations</h2>
122
123	<p>The complete bibliography of my publications is available as
124	a <a href="bandali.bib">bandali.bib</a>
125	<span class="tex">B<span>ib</span>T<sub>e</sub>X</span> bibliography
126	file.</p>
127
128	<h3>Papers</h3>
129
130	<dl>
131	<dt>A Comparison of the Declarative Modelling Languages B, DASH, and
132	TLA<sup>+</sup>
133	<small>
134	[ <a href="https://p.bndl.org/modre2018-declarative.pdf">pdf</a>
135	\| <a href="https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~nday/artifacts/2018-modre/">models</a>
136	]
137	</small>
138	</dt>
139	<dd>
140	Ali Abbassi, <a href="https://bndl.org">Amin Bandali</a>,
141	<a href="https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~nday/">Nancy A. Day</a>, Jose Serna<br />
142	<em>8th IEEE International Model-Driven Requirements Engineering Workshop, MoDRE@RE 2018</em><br />
143	Copyright © 2018 IEEE. All Rights Reserved. Sadly.
144	</dd>
145	</dl>
146
147	<h3>Theses</h3>
148
149	<dl>
150	<dt id="mmath">A Comprehensive Study of Declarative Modelling
151	Languages
152	<small>
153	[ <a href="https://p.bndl.org/bandali-mmath-thesis.pdf">pdf</a>
154	\| <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/10012/16059">hdl</a>
155	\| <a href="https://bndl.org/mmath.html">http</a>
156	]
157	</small>
158	</dt>
159	<dd>
160	<a href="https://bndl.org">Amin Bandali</a><br />
161	<em><abbr title="Master of Mathematics">MMath</abbr> Thesis,
162	University of Waterloo, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science,
163	July 2020.</em>
164	</dd>
165	</dl>
166
167	<h3>Talks</h3>
168
169	<dl>
170	<dt>Jami and how it empowers users
171	<small>
172	[ <a href="https://p.bndl.org/bandali-jami-libreplanet-2021.pdf">pdf</a>
173	(<a href="https://p.bndl.org/bandali-jami-libreplanet-2021-with-notes.pdf">with
174	notes</a>)
175	\| <a href="https://bndl.org/libreplanet-2021.html">http</a>
176	]
177	</small>
178	</dt>
179	<dd>
180	<a href="https://bndl.org">Amin Bandali</a><br />
181	<em>Presented at the LibrePlanet 2021 Conference, March 20, 2021.</em>
182	</dd>
183
184	<dt>The Magic of Specifications and Type Systems
185	<small>
186	[ <a href="https://p.bndl.org/cucsc-2017-slides.pdf">slides</a>
187	\| <a href="https://p.bndl.org/eecs4080-poster.pdf">poster</a>
188	]
189	</small>
190	</dt>
191	<dd>
192	<a href="https://bndl.org">Amin Bandali</a>,
193	<a href="https://github.com/cipher1024">Simon Hudon</a>,
194	<a href="https://www.eecs.yorku.ca/~jonathan/">Jonathan S. Ostroff</a><br />
195	<em>Slides presented at the Canadian Undergraduate Computer Science
196	Conference 2017, University of Toronto, Canada, June 15–17, 2017.<br />
197	Poster presented at the Lassonde Undergraduate Summer Student Research
198	Conference, York University, Toronto, Canada, August 15, 2017.</em>
199	</dd>
200
201	<dt>Introducing YULUG</dt>
202	<dd>
203	<a href="https://bndl.org">Amin Bandali</a><br />
204	<em>Slides introducing YULUG — (GNU/)Linux User Group at York
205	University — presented at a Computing Students Hub (CSHub) tech
206	talk at York University, Toronto, Canada, February 12, 2015.</em>
207	</dd>
208	</dl>
209
210	<h2>Work & Research Experience</h2>
211
212	<dl>
213	<dt>Savoir-faire Linux</dt>
214	<dd>fall 2020–present \| Free Software Consultant \| Consultant en
215	logiciel libre</dd>
216	<dd>
217	<dl>
218	<dd>I am part of the Jami core development team at Savoir-faire Linux,
219	where I work on various parts of Jami as a Free Software Consultant.
220	These include working on and maintaining the GTK+-based jami-gnome
221	client application written in C++ and C, and packaging Jami for
222	various GNU/Linux distributions and other platforms. I also serve as
223	a community liaison between the Jami core team and the wider free
224	software community around Jami, with the goal of helping facilitate
225	the communications and relations between the two.</dd>
226	</dl>
227	</dd>
228
229	<dt>Free Software Foundation (FSF)</dt>
230	<dd>spring 2020 \| Intern</dd>
231	<dd>
232	<dl>
233	<dd>Working with the FSF tech team in a sysadmin role on a variety of
234	tasks including installation of the Sourcehut free software forge on
235	the FSF infrastructure for evaluation for the FSF forge project, as
236	well as a series of enhancements
237	for <a href="https://www.gnu.org">www.gnu.org</a>.</dd>
238	</dl>
239	</dd>
240
241	<dt>Cheriton School of Science, University of Waterloo</dt>
242	<dd>winter 2018–spring 2020 \| TA, IA, RA <sup>[*]</sup></dd>
243	<dd>
244	<dl>
245	<dd>SE 465 (Software Testing and Quality Assurance): TA in winter
246	2020</dd>
247	<dd>SE 212 (Logic and Computation): <a href="se212-f19.html">IA in
248	Fall 2019</a>, TA in fall 2018</dd>
249	<dd>SE 463 (Software Requirement Specification and Analysis): TA in
250	spring 2019 and 2018</dd>
251	<dd>CS 136 (Elementary Algorithm Design and Data Abstraction): TA in
252	winter 2018</dd>
253	</dl>
254	</dd>
255	<dd><small>[*]: Teaching Assistant (marking exams and assignments),
256	Instructional Apprentice (holding tutorials and marking), Research
257	Assistant (doing research for/with supervisor)</small></dd>
258
259	<dt>Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, York
260	University</dt>
261	<dd>fall 2017 \| Teaching Assistant</dd>
262	<dd>
263	<dl>
264	<dd>EECS 1012 (Net-Centric Introduction to Computing): TA in fall
265	2017, running labs and marking labs and exams</dd>
266	</dl>
267	</dd>
268
269	<dt>Software Engineering Lab, York University</dt>
270	<dd>
271	<dl>
272	<dt>summer 2017 \| Research Assistant</dt>
273	<dd>Worked on an implementation
274	of <a href="https://bertrandmeyer.com/2014/12/07/lampsort/">Lampsort</a>
275	in Eiffel. Extended
276	the <a href="https://svn.eecs.yorku.ca/repos/sel-open/mathmodels/">mathmodels</a>
277	library, implementing a <code>rational</code> class for working with
278	arbitrarily large rational numbers.</dd>
279	</dl>
280	</dd>
281	<dd>
282	<dl>
283	<dt>summer 2016 \| Research Student</dt>
284	<dd>Worked on <em>Literate Unit-B</em>, the verifier for Unit-B, a
285	new formal method focused on formal verification of reactive,
286	concurrent and distributed systems. From the Literate Unit-B codebase
287	(written in Haskell), decoupled the logic module and used it to build
288	<em>Unit-B Web</em>, a web interface using Literate Unit-B to do
289	predicate calculus proofs. Unit-B Web, also written in Haskell,
290	supports the <span class="tex">L<sup>a</sup>T<sub>e</sub>X</span>
291	syntax of the Unit-B logic, renders user input on the page, and calls
292	the sequent prover of the logic module, which uses the Z3 SMT solver
293	to check the validity of user input.</dd>
294	<dd>Separated Literate Unit-B's type checker from its parser in a
295	large refactoring, allowing easier substitution of other type checking
296	algorithms, and in preparation for implementing subtyping.</dd>
297	</dl>
298	</dd>
299
300	<dt>Lotek Wireless Inc.</dt>
301	<dd>
302	<dl>
303	<dt>summer 2016 \| Software Developer</dt>
304	<dd>Designed and developed an Employee Portal web application in C#
305	and the MVC framework, used by employees for accessing various data
306	catalogs and archives.</dd>
307	</dl>
308	</dd>
309	<dd>
310	<dl>
311	<dt>summer 2015 \| Software Developer</dt>
312	<dd>Designed and implemented various applications in C# and C for
313	analyzing and testing a satellite pass prediction algorithm for
314	predicting the pass windows of Argos satellites, for scheduling send
315	times of data collected by the company's wildlife tracking
316	products.</dd>
317	</dl>
318	</dd>
319
320	<dt>Athlete Builder</dt>
321	<dd>
322	<dl>
323	<dt>2013–2014 \| Software Developer</dt>
324	<dd>Developed the Backend of Athlete Builder platform in C# and
325	MVC.</dd>
326	<dd>Key role in development of the platform core.</dd>
327	<dd>Developed the alpha version of Athlete Builder Android application
328	in Java.</dd>
329	</dl>
330	</dd>
331	</dl>
332
333	<h2>Skills</h2>
334	<dl>
335	<dt>Programming languages</dt>
336	<dd>C, C++, Haskell, Emacs Lisp, Guile Scheme, Python, Eiffel, Bash,
337	C#, Java, JavaScript</dd>
338	<dt>Tools</dt>
339	<dd>GNU Emacs, Git, Alloy, TLA<sup>+</sup>,
340	ProB, <span class="tex">L<sup>a</sup>T<sub>e</sub>X</span>, continuous
341	integration systems</dd>
342	<dt>Platforms</dt>
343	<dd>GNU/Linux distributions, including Trisquel, GNU Guix, Debian</dd>
344	<dt>Languages</dt>
345	<dd>Persian (mother tongue), English (fluent), French (beginner)</dd>
346	</dl>
347
348	<h2>Community Service</h2>
349	<dl>
350	<dt>EmacsConf conference</dt>
351	<dd>
352	<dl>
353	<dt>2019–present</dt>
354	<dd>Chief organizer and maintainer of conference infrastructure,
355	including the streaming servers.</dd>
356	<dt>2015</dt>
357	<dd>One of the organizers and in charge of setting up and maintaining
358	vital pieces of infrastructure.</dd>
359	</dl>
360	</dd>
361	<dt>Computer Science Club (CSC) of the University of Waterloo</dt>
362	<dd>Served as the CSC System Administrator in Winter and Spring 2020.
363	Present member of the CSC Systems Committee, overseeing and
364	maintaining a large fleet of GNU/Linux servers for CSC members, as
365	well as running the CSC mirror for free software projects.</dd>
366	<dd>Notable projects
367	include <a href="https://mailman.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/pipermail/csc-general/2020-July/000837.html">launching
368	the CSC web IRC client</a> as part of an effort in bringing modern
369	user freedom- and privacy-respecting communication tools to club
370	members.</dd>
371	<dt>Free/libre software contributions</dt>
372	<dd>Co-maintainer
373	of <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/gnuzilla.html">GNUzilla
374	and IceCat</a>, the GNU version of the Mozilla suite and the Firefox
375	browser respectively.</dd>
376	<dd>Maintainer
377	of <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/erc.html">ERC</a>, the
378	powerful, modular, and extensible IRC client distributed with GNU
379	Emacs.</dd>
380	<dd>Committer and regular contributor
381	to <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html">GNU
382	Emacs</a> and <a href="https://guix.gnu.org">GNU Guix</a>.</dd>
383	<dd><a href="https://www.gnu.org/people/webmeisters.html#bandali">GNU
384	webmaster</a>
385	and <a href="https://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/SavannahHacker/">GNU
386	Savannah hacker</a>.</dd>
387	<dt>Volunteer work</dt>
388	<dd>
389	<dl>
390	<dt>spring 2013 \| Application Developer for VONICAL Inc.</dt>
391	<dd>Worked on development of the Employment Accessibility Resource
392	Network (EARN) portal using the Anahita social networking platform,
393	written in PHP and running on GNU/Linux.</dd>
394	<dt>winter 2013 \| Mobile & Web Developer for Hire Works Inc.</dt>
395	<dd>Worked on a variety of web and mobile development projects for
396	Hire Works.</dd>
397	<dt>summer 2012 \| Web Developer for St. Brigid's Summer Camp</dt>
398	<dd>Redesigned and revamped the codebase for the photo gallery section
399	of the camp's website in PHP and JavaScript.</dd>
400	</dl>
401	</dd>
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